The Stade Rennais Courier
Squad17 Apr 2028
Kelvin Dongopandji says Stade Rennais went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market17 Apr 2028
Breel Embolo wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Lilian Brassier in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Rennais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Valentin Rongier falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Apr 2028
A long bet from Stade Rennais on Henri Rey
He is 16, and nobody at Stade Rennais signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market17 Apr 2028
Stade Rennais sign Raymond Brun, one for the future
Raymond Brun is 16, and Stade Rennais have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Stade Rennais on Dominique Dumont
- Squad Lilian Brassier asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom Stade Rennais keep producing them
- Loan watch Djaoui Cissé's loan at Olympique de Marseille nearly up